Yeah, good idea. I'm happy to submit the specs I wrote for normal kafka
replication. It will make them more accessible and I have long been looking
for help reviewing them. Hopefully it will also provide a better chance to
keep them in sync with the codebase as we update protocols.

-Jason

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 1:50 AM Jack Vanlightly
<jvanligh...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote:

> +1 for me too. Once the KIP-853 is agreed I will make any necessary changes
> and submit a PR to the apache/kafka repo.
>
> Jack
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 10:10 PM Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > I'm +1 for inclusion in the main repo and I was going to suggest the same
> > in the KIP-853 discussion. The original authors of 3 and 4 are part of
> the
> > kafka community, so we can ask them to submit PRs.
> >
> > Ismael
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 7:58 AM Tom Bentley <tbent...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I noticed that TLA+ has featured in the Test Plans of a couple of
> recent
> > > KIPs [1,2]. This is a good thing in my opinion. I'm aware that TLA+ has
> > > been used in the past to prove properties of various parts of the Kafka
> > > protocol [3,4].
> > >
> > > The point I wanted to raise is that I think it would be beneficial to
> the
> > > community if these models could be part of the main Kafka repo. That
> way
> > > there are fewer hurdles to their discoverability and it makes it easier
> > for
> > > people to compare the implementation with the spec. Spreading
> familiarity
> > > with TLA+ within the community is also a potential side-benefit.
> > >
> > > I notice that the specs in [4] are MIT-licensed, but according to the
> > > Apache 3rd party license policy [5] it should be OK to include.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > [1]:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-848%3A+The+Next+Generation+of+the+Consumer+Rebalance+Protocol#KIP848:TheNextGenerationoftheConsumerRebalanceProtocol-TestPlan
> > > [2]:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-853%3A+KRaft+Voter+Changes#KIP853:KRaftVoterChanges-TestPlan
> > > [3]: https://github.com/hachikuji/kafka-specification
> > > [4]:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/Vanlightly/raft-tlaplus/tree/main/specifications/pull-raft
> > > [5]: https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
> > >
> >
>

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